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LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models
Edward J. Hu, Yelong Shen +6
Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM)
Jonathan Ho, Ajay Jain, Pieter Abbeel
Spurious Rewards: Rethinking Training Signals in RLVR
Rulin Shao, Shuyue Stella Li +12
s1: Simple Test-Time Scaling
Niklas Muennighoff, Zitong Yang +8
Generative Adversarial Nets
Ian J. Goodfellow, Jean Pouget-Abadie +6
Inside MuZero: Mastering the World Without Knowing the Rules
Julian Schrittwieser, Ioannis Antonoglou +10
Mem0: Scalable Long-Term Memory for AI Agents
LOCOMO: 67.13%Prateek Chhikara, Dev Khant +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable prowess in generating contextually coherent responses, yet their fixed context windows pose fundamental challenges for…
SkillOpt — Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills
best-or-tied evaluated cells: 52/52 cellsYifan Yang, Ziyang Gong +13
Agent skills today are hand-crafted, generated one-shot, or evolved through loosely controlled self-revision, none of which behaves like a deep-learning optimizer for the skill,…
RGSD: Rubric-Guided Self-Distillation
RubricHub-medical + HealthBench: +6.1ppMohammadHossein Rezaei, Anas Mahmoud +7
Rubrics have emerged as an alternative to RLVR in open-ended domains where a single ground-truth final answer is not available. Existing rubric-based training methods rely on an…
Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning
Pass@1: 91.0%Noah Shinn, Federico Cassano +4
Large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly used to interact with external environments (e.g., games, compilers, APIs) as goal-driven agents. However, it remains…
RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
HellaSwag: 74.8%Bo Peng, Eric Alcaide +32
Transformers have revolutionized almost all natural language processing (NLP) tasks but suffer from memory and computational complexity that scales quadratically with sequence…
Model Domain Mapping Function & Composition
Space Object Detection via Multi-frame Temporal Trajectory Completion
SpotGEO: 90.14%The Empowerment of Science of Science by LLMs
DeepSeek-V3 Cost: 0.12 USD/M tokensTülu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training
GSM8K: 87.6%Nathan Lambert, Jacob Morrison +21
Language model post-training is applied to refine behaviors and unlock new skills across a wide range of recent language models, but open recipes for applying these techniques…
Kimi k1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs
AIME 2024: 77.5%Kimi Team, Angang Du +94
Language model pretraining with next token prediction has proved effective for scaling compute but is limited to the amount of available training data. Scaling reinforcement…
The Entropy Mechanism of RL for Reasoning LLMs
AIME24: 36.8%Ganqu Cui, Yuchen Zhang +15
This paper aims to overcome a major obstacle in scaling RL for reasoning with LLMs, namely the collapse of policy entropy. Such phenomenon is consistently observed across vast RL…
1-Shot RLVR: Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning with One Example
MATH500: 73.6%Yiping Wang, Qing Yang +12
We show that reinforcement learning with verifiable reward using one training example (1-shot RLVR) is effective in incentivizing the math reasoning capabilities of large…
Spurious Rewards: Rethinking Training Signals in RLVR
MATH-500: 70.8%Rulin Shao, Shuyue Stella Li +12
We show that reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) can elicit strong mathematical reasoning in certain language models even with spurious rewards that have…
Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-play Reasoning with Zero Data
AVG: 50.4%Andrew Zhao, Yiran Wu +9
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has shown promise in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models by learning directly from outcome-based…
Does RL Really Expand LLM Reasoning?
Omni-MATH-Train: 42.5%Yang Yue, Zhiqi Chen +6
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently demonstrated notable success in enhancing the reasoning performance of large language models (LLMs),…
Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective
AIME 2024: 43.3%Zichen Liu, Changyu Chen +6
DeepSeek-R1-Zero has shown that reinforcement learning (RL) at scale can directly enhance the reasoning capabilities of LLMs without supervised fine-tuning. In this work, we…
DAPO: Demystifying Large-Scale LLM Reinforcement Learning
AIME 2024: 50.0%Qiying Yu, Zheng Zhang +33
Inference scaling empowers LLMs with unprecedented reasoning ability, with reinforcement learning as the core technique to elicit complex reasoning. However, key technical…
s1: Simple Test-Time Scaling
AIME24: 56.7%Niklas Muennighoff, Zitong Yang +8
Test-time scaling is a promising new approach to language modeling that uses extra test-time compute to improve performance. Recently, OpenAI's o1 model showed this capability…
DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning
MATH: 51.7%Zhihong Shao, Peiyi Wang +9
Mathematical reasoning poses a significant challenge for language models due to its complex and structured nature. In this paper, we introduce DeepSeekMath 7B, which continues…
DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL
AIME 2024: 79.8%DeepSeek-AI, Daya Guo +198
General reasoning represents a long-standing and formidable challenge in artificial intelligence. Recent breakthroughs, exemplified by large language models (LLMs) and…
Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning — OpenAI Five
Win rate vs Public: 99.4%OpenAI, : +25
On April 13th, 2019, OpenAI Five became the first AI system to defeat the world champions at an esports game. The game of Dota 2 presents novel challenges for AI systems such as…
Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modeling
DQN-Replay 1%: 267.5 ± 97.5Lili Chen, Kevin Lu +7
We introduce a framework that abstracts Reinforcement Learning (RL) as a sequence modeling problem. This allows us to draw upon the simplicity and scalability of the Transformer…
Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models — DreamerV3
Atari 2600: 830%Danijar Hafner, Jurgis Pasukonis +2
Developing a general algorithm that learns to solve tasks across a wide range of applications has been a fundamental challenge in artificial intelligence. Although current…
World Models: Training Agents in Their Own Dreams
CarRacing-v0: 906 ± 21David Ha, Jürgen Schmidhuber
We explore building generative neural network models of popular reinforcement learning environments. Our world model can be trained quickly in an unsupervised manner to learn a…